Instructional Technologies for Non-Fiction Text 

Content for this workshop is currently under development. The sources below inform the content of the workshop and will provide the basis for instruction.

Workshop Process

• What types of knowledge are we mainly teaching in English Language Arts and how does knowing that help us determine how we will teach? 

• Define both procedural and declarative knowledge and take a look at our ELA curriculum to identify the type of knowledge being taught for each of our benchmarks.

• Discuss strategies for teaching procedural knowledge.
• Learn strategies for using technology tools that support ELA benchmarks for non-fiction text.
• Processing information in order to use it efficiently and effectively.  Information from non-fiction text is typically used for declarative knowledge where information must be gathered and organize in order to apply it for long term retention and retrieval for application to new information in the future.

Supporting materials for this workshop will include:

Strategies That Work 2nd Edition - Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis

Strategies that work with the support of computer and digital technologies:

pg 93: Activating and Connecting to Background Knowledge

Summarizing content - from web resources

Classroom Instruction That Works - Robert J. Marzano, Debra J. Pickering, Jane E. Pollock ©2001

Chapter 3: Summarizing and Notetaking

Chapter 7: Cooperative Learning

Chapter 9: Generating and Testing Hypotheses

Chapter 10: Cues, Quesetions, and Advance Organizers

Improving Student Learning One Teacher at a Time - Jane E. Pollock ©2007

Chapter 3: Instructional Planning and Delivery